broad:
1. Casual or affectionate term for a girl or woman , sometimes with a connotation of sexual looseness. Defined in A Feminist Dictionary (1985): ' A woman who is liberal, tolerant, unconfined and not limited or narrow in scope .' Broad and the following terms are considered offensively sexist by many women: babe ; baby ; baby-doll ; bimbo ; bird ; bit-of-fluff (stuff; skirt); chickabiddy ; chicken ; chicky; chippy ; cooz; cow ; crack ; cunt ; cutie ; dame ; dearie; dish ; doll ; dollop; dolly ; filly ; fluff ; frail ; frau ; gal ; ginch ; girlie ; heifer; hen ; honey ; honey-bun; honey-bunny; jane ; jenny ; lassie; mare; missie; missis ; momma; mouse ; pet ; piece ; pussy ; pussycat ; quail ; rib ; she-she; shouter; sis ; sissy ; sister; skirt ; slash ; snatch ; squab; squaw ; squeeze; stuff ; sweet baby ; sweet-patootie ; sweet stuff ; sweet thing ; tail ; tart ; toots ; tootsie ; twist . See playgirl for synonyms.Quotes:
(1) James Wolcott: ' I use broad as a moniker of respect for a woman who knows how to throw a mean right .'
(2) Charley Nichols (Walter Matthau) to Ann Atkinson (Glenda Jackson) in House Calls (1978): ' It's comforting with an old broad like you. I don't have to explain things all the time like who Ronald Colman is .'
(3) Macalinski (Karl Malden) paying The Countess/Veronica (Teri Garr) a double-edged compliment in The Sting II (1983): ' You're an awful good-looking broad .'
(4) Bob Weston (Tony Curtis) to psychologist Helen Gurley Brown (Natalie Wood) in Sex and the Single Girl (1964): ' She'd hit the ceiling if she thought you and me were sitting here alone. You know what she'd figure? She'd figure a broad as pretty as you as got to be on-the-make .'
(5) David Addison (Bruce Willis) to Maddy Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) in Moonlighting (1985): ' You're one cold icy broad. You have your nose so high in the air it's snowing on your brain .'
(6) The short megalomaniac Dr. Noah / Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen) in Casino Royale (1967): ' A world (...) where a man , no matter how short, can score-with a top broad .'
(7) Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) about his mistress Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) who, after some time with a tutor to ' smarten her up ' is now smart enough to leave him in Born Yesterday (1950): ' I love that broad. Do you think we could find someone to make her dumb again? ' He also says, on a philosophical tone: ' A broad is a broad! '
(8) Catchphrase: ' Have you ever been abroad? '
2. From the 1920-30s onward, a woman of dubious reputation , a loose or promiscuous woman . More rarely, a prostitute .
Quote:
(1) Vaudevillian Hank (Bessie Love) and Eddie (Charles King) in The Broadway Melody (1929):-- Hank: ' We never had to get by on our legs before .'-- Eddie: ' Those guys ain't going to pay ten bucks to look at your face . This is Broadway .'-- Hank: ' Yeah, broadsway .'
(2) Matt Helm (Dean Martin) and Sheila Sommers (Janice Rule) in The Ambushers (1967): -- Matt: ' We have a long wait ahead of us, so let's get comfortable .'-- Sheila : ' How comfortable? '-- Matt: ' It's broad daylight! '-- Shaila: ' What's wrong with a broad in daylight? '
3. The ass or anus . See ass and anus for synonyms.
4. The passive or receptive partner in anal-intercourse . See sodomite for synonyms.
5. Short for broad-minded .
Synonyms: bit-of-beef, a-bit-of-bouncy-bouncy, a bit of business, a bit of bum-dancing, a-bit-of-butt, a-bit-of-cauliflower, a bit of cock-fighting, a-bit-of-crumpet, a-bit-of-cuddle, a bit of cunt, a bit of curly greens, a-bit-of-fat, a bit of fish, a-bit-of-flat, a-bit-of-fork, a-bit-of-front-door-work, a-bit-of-fun, a-bit-of-hair, a-bit-of-how's-yer-father, a-bit-of-it, a-bit-of-nifty, a-bit-of-nobble, a-bit-of-nookey, a-bit-of-pork, a bit of quimsy, a-bit-of-raspberry, a-bit-of-rough, a-bit-of-rumpty-tumpty, a-bit-of-rumpy-bumpy, a-bit-of-rumpy-pumpy, a-bit-of-snug, a-bit-of-the-other, a-bit-of-skin, a-bit-of-snug-for-a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-stiff, a-bit-of-the-old-in-and-out, a bit on a / the fork, a-dash-up-the-channel, a-knee-trembler, a little game of hide-the-sausage, a-little-o-the-one-with-tother, a-little-one-on-one, a piece of crumpet, a-poke-in-the-whiskers, a-poke-through-the-whiskers, a-spot-of-Cupids-archery, a spot hard breathing, a-squeeze-and-a-squirt, accommodate, act, the, act-of-androgynation, act-of-darkness, act-of-generation, act-of-kind, act-of-love, act-of-pleasure, act-of-shame, act-of-sport, Adam-and-Eve-it, adamize, afternoon-delight, all-the-way, all there but the most of you, amorous-congress, amorous-rites, ashes-hauled, assault-with-a-friendly-weapon, at-it, baby-making-love, bag, bag-up, bag-of-coke, bait-the-hook, balaclava, ball, balling, balling-the-jack, balls-eye, baloney-hop, baloney ride, bam-bam, banana, bananas-and-cream, bandicooting, bang, bang-away, bang-like-a-shithouse-door-(in-a-gale), bang like a shithouse door (in the wind), banging, banging away, Barrer-Moke, bash-leather, basket-making, bat-up, bawdy-banquet, bayonet-drill, BBQ'N, be-intimate-with, be-with-a-woman, beanfeast
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